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John M. Brown wrote: > My only problem with Pay Up Front is that some customers are going > to be dead beat about paying us. I would want to make sure that That's your problem. You choose your business model and I'll choose mine. > there was some recourse to collecting our money or having the > domain placed on hold until fees are paid. The only way that > I can see doing that now is to register the domain under our name > and then transfer it later once we get paid. Way to much work. You have a number of choices here: 1. Require your customers to pay up front, too. 2. Charge them extra for the pre-payment and transfer costs. 3. Register them as the billing contact for their own domain. We happen to do #3 because it keeps costs lowest, and fully establishes the concept that they own their own domain names, not us. > Another way is to take the abusers to court and nail them. Make the > penalty to high and they will leave. I'd prefer to have the problem solved well before 2002. -- -- *-----------------------------* Phil Howard KA9WGN * -- -- | Inturnet, Inc. | Director of Internet Services | -- -- | Business Internet Solutions | eng at intur.net | -- -- *-----------------------------* phil at intur.net * --
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